Thursday, November 27, 2008

Dotster, a Vancouver, Washington based Web Host and Domain Registrar Company has once again come under fire for hosting a web site linked to a known radical Jihadist terrorist group.

Dotster, located near Westfield Shopping Center (formerly the Vancouver Mall), was first linked as a web host to a Somalia Al Shabaab terrorist group using the domain of kataaib.net earlier this year.

It was May 2008 when the Columbian ran an Op-Ed mentioning Bill Warner, a Sarasota, Florida private investigator’s effort to have Dotster shut down the web site.

Citing First Amendment concerns, Dotster CEO, Clint Page said, “We can’t just arbitrarily go in and shut down sites based on what someone finds offensive,” adding that the problem with Warner's approach is the danger of it leading to abuses and resulting in shutting down sites that are Political Advocates, the ACLU or even the NRA.

An odd disclaimer from them considering that in April 2003, Dotster had no problem pulling down the web site BoycottHollywood.com and voiding their contract with them, forcing them to move to another web host.

In that article, Brian Unruh, chief financial officer at Dotster was quoted as saying,

“We are not in a position to judge and be a jury on what content may be legal or acceptable,” adding, “The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution protects the right to freedom of speech and expression, and for that reason Dotster attempts to be very careful about balancing the rights of its customers with other concerns.”

Was that a consideration with BoycottHollywood.com, just 4 years earlier?

Apparently Dotster must have felt there was insufficient evidence that Al-Shabaab was part of the kataaib.net domain they host and claims to have forwarded the information from Warner to the “right authorities.”

The matter was dropped and sat until recently. Once again, the Jawa Report records a translated page supplied by the NEFA foundation of an intercepted message from Al-Shabaab, ostensibly “correcting” an Al Jazeera article claiming they were in opposition to the Somalia Pirates in the news lately for several high profile ship high jacking.

While the translated communiqué focuses primarily on “setting the record straight” about the group not opposing the pirates, directing Al Jazeera and other interested persons to their PR Web Page, they state,

“The movement has an official website [www.kataaib.net] which carries our official statements. Additionally, we have an official wing that manages all of our audio, video, and written releases. That wing is known as the 'Sada al-Jihad Media Center' and it belongs to the Global Islamic Media Front'.” (emphasis added)

Returning to Dotster’s own “whois” page, searching for kataaib.net reveals,

Just to be clear, I do not subscribe to any notion that Dotster knowingly supports or engages in any terrorist activities, by Al-Shabbat or any other group. Dotster, like many other companies, has millions of customers. Not all customers are what we would deem “good customers.”

Earlier this year Dotster seemed unable to link Al-Shabaab, a known terrorist group to their client, kataaib.net. Given the claim intercepted and translated above, Al-Shabaab has now provided a clear link between the two.

Perhaps now Dotster will be able to “void their contract” with this terrorist group with as much ease as they did with an American group drawing attention to the Liberalism of Hollywood actors.

Saturday, November 22, 2008

As most know, Clark County Conservative is one of the supporters of the proposed Initiative 409, a measure intended to encourage Washington State Law Enforcement and Businesses to uphold and enforce our current immigration laws throughout the state.

The heaviest opposition is coming from Hispanic/Latino groups who seem to encourage as many ILLEGAL immigrants to come here as possible.

Some students from Washington State University in Pullman expressed their displeasure with the proposed initiative in the Universities paper, the Daily Evergreen in October and as expected, distorted the purpose of I-409 and pulled on people’s heartstrings.

Students handed out flyers prominently displaying, “No to I-409, Yes to Human Rights.”

One is left wondering, if they really are so concerned about “Human Rights,” why do they not encourage the country of Mexico to treat their citizens better instead of sending them north?

Where are their protests of the mistreatment of Hispanic/Latino citizens by a corrupt government and the wealthier south of us that causes so many from that nation, to speak of just one, to ILLEGALLY enter our country?

Adriana Sanchez, MEChA co-chairwoman said,

“I see I-409 as a discriminating act, it is denying opportunity to the less fortunate. I hope people look outside the box and realize the negative effects this initiative could have on children such as denying them high school education or the negative effects of denying health care to those who need it or the cost to produce productivity. It’s inhumane. If the proposal goes forward, it could be interpreted to say that children illegally in the U.S. could not attend high school, and that anyone over the age of 14 would be ineligible for medical care.”

Ms. Sanchez, with all due respect, no one is denied medical care in an emergency case in this nation. Still, U.S. taxpayers are all too often left holding the bills for such care, straining our already overburdened medical system and tax structure.

Those here ILLEGALLY cost our schools more as many must be instructed in the native language, many not desiring to assimilate to our culture by learning our language. We taxpayers must pay those costs, not the native countries.

Still, I must think back to my original statement, if these advocacy groups fought half as hard to improve conditions for those who feel they have a right to violate our laws in their native lands as they do here, would those who come here ILLEGALLY and operate “under the radar” even need our facilities and tax dollars?

I am left wondering too is Ms. Sanchez has ever looked up the very word she uses, ILLEGAL, in a dictionary.

Readers too might be interested in just who and what MEChA really is.

MEChA stands for Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlán, roughly translated, the Chicano Student Movement of Aztlán, considered by some to be an umbrella organization of radical Chicano student groups. It was founded in 1969, during a period of much leftist unrest in America. Aztlán is the territory in the Southwestern United States and West Coast that America purchased from Mexico in 1848, after defeating them in war and paying $15,000,000.00 as per the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.

MEChA founders feel the mythical land of Aztlán belongs to them, not the United States of America. Their goal seems to be their liberation from the 'White occupiers' of the Western United States.

They claim their desire on the first site linked in the paragraph above as,

“A nation autonomous and free - culturally, socially, economically, and politically- will make its own decisions on the usage of our lands, the taxation of our goods, the utilization of our bodies for war, the determination of justice (reward and punishment), and the profit of our sweat.”

From the second link above, we find,

“MEChA was founded on the principles of self-determination for the liberation of our people,” and “the affirmation that we are Indigenous people to this land by placing our movement in Aztlan, the homeland of all peoples from Anahuak.”

Audio of some of their statements over the years, mostly through the 1990’s, can be heard at this Snopes.com article. Note, they are mostly taken from California events, not Washington State, but the goals are the same.

Summing this all up is the words of Margarita Esquivel, co-chairwoman of the Chicano/a Latino/a Student Alliance in the Daily Evergreen article,

“It is we who determine how our state is being governed and the policies that are enacted which will effect our future.”

Friday, November 21, 2008

As an old fashioned Southern Conservative, the thought of rising crime is and has been unacceptable to me. It has long escaped me why crime continues to rise in spite of all the efforts we hear of fighting crime, the reality Cop shows where the criminals are caught and arrested and even the Court shows where they are convicted and sentenced.

Okay, we all know the Drama Shows are fictional. Dragnet, Adam 12, Starsky & Hutch and all were actors playing a role, but with the reality shows today and news reports, we are led to believe citizens and the authorities are effectively fighting crime.

And still, crime rises. Theory after theory is given as to why. Poverty, oppressive parents, harsh parental discipline and more are blamed. I reject those reasons myself. Oh, abuse may play a role in a small minority of cases, but I know of several people who survived abuse and did not turn to a life of crime to justify that theory.

Through personal experience I have discovered why at least one segment of the rising crime rate continues. That segment being fraud, criminal fraud through the mail, old-fashioned scam artists.

Let me back up a bit and explain.

Both my wife and I operate small online sales over the internet reselling items we purchase at clearance and closeout sales to supplement our incomes. Nothing major, a good month might bring us a couple hundred dollars extra. For the most part, we deal with very nice people who appreciate finding something they missed when the item was popular in regular stores and we strive to price the items fairly. Nothing too unusual that several other people have begun doing.

We were surprised to receive in the mail a Cashiers Check for nearly $300.00 for an order through her online sales. Surprised because the purchaser did not go through the actual selling site, but copied the order and sent it to us in the mail, bypassing the selling site.

Unusual, yes, but some people can be quirky.

Our initial elation began to wane once she realized the items ordered totaled less than $130.00. Recalling several warnings of online scams, we decided to check into this surprise order.

We discovered that as we suspected, it is the fraudulent check scam where they request the items shipped next day mail and please send them the over payment, leaving us stuck for the total amount and charges once the fraudulent check came back as a fraud, if we had deposited the check.

This check was an excellent forgery, even to the watermarks on the backside and looked very official. We discovered it was a forgery once we called the “bank” that supposedly issued it, Southshore Currency at 110 N. Lake St. Chicago, Il. 60601, drawn in affiliation with J.P. Morgan Chase Bank.

Southshore Currency assured us they were not a bank and did not issue Cashiers Checks from JP Morgan Chase Bank. They do not have an office located at N. Lake St in Chicago as N. lake Street is an East-West arterial anyways.

The routing number on the check was authentic, but for a bank located in Michigan.

The last confirmation we needed was for the purchaser, “Tyson Williams,” most assuredly an assumed name, replied to an email questioning the transaction just as we expected, “ship next day send refund for overpayment.”

At this point, I began discovering why criminals continue to get away with this sort of fraud. Calls to all the Banks listed resulted in numerous incidences of being passed on to another person, once to someone in the Philippines. None wanted to be involved with a fraudulent check written on their bank saying they could do nothing!

Trying our local Washington Mutual Bank, who is now affiliated with JP Morgan Chase Bank, resulted in much the same. All they could do was deposit it and see if it cleared. Uh, no. We already know it is a fraudulent check, why deposit it?

Getting frustrated in trying to report this in hopes it would be taken serious enough to maybe try to find whoever it is perpetrating these crimes, we decided to make a call to the Chicago Police, since it originated in their city.

Explaining it to the officer who first answered, he replied, “throw it away, it’s a scam.” Thanks, like we didn’t know that. Reminding him that we knew it was a scam already and we were trying to report it, he informed us, “there’s nothing we can do, you have the check.”

He did give us a “non-emergency” number elsewhere in Chicago to report it. Or at least we thought. Calling there resulted in the same reply, “there’s nothing we can do, the check is in your state.” Asking if they would like us to send them the check, letter and envelope elicited the reply, “no, just throw it away.”

Thinking maybe it qualified as Mail Fraud, I called the local Post Office and explained it to them. I was first informed that fraud had not been committed because we hadn’t deposited the check and been victimized. Pressing a bit further, the person I talked to finally said I could bring it all to the Post Office and they could look into it and could possibly use it as evidence.

I even called the FBI to inquire about it and was told it was a scam again, duh! The FBI Agent did say report it as Mail Fraud as the FBI had no jurisdiction in it and it was Mail Fraud.

We ended up giving it to the Post Office who took our information and what might be called a “report” on “sticky notes,” saying if they needed additional info, they’d get back to us.

Needless to say my eyes were opened on this sort of crime. I realize it isn’t a major crime and had we fallen for it, we would have been out maybe $200.00 or so, plus the items. But, how many others have received fraudulent checks as this and were not lucky enough to spot the forgery? Is it possible the person responsible for this fraud has made hundreds, maybe thousands of dollars off of unsuspecting people nationwide?

More importantly to me, have we gotten so lackadaisical that we just write off crimes as this and let the criminal walk to victimize the next unsuspecting person, possibly an older person trying to supplement their income a little?

This isn’t a murder, rape or violent crime, but a crime nonetheless.

How do we follow McGruff’s “Take a Bite Out Of Crime” if all we do is file these crimes in the circular file?

Watch out for yourselves, folks. In these “lesser crimes,” it seems as if we are on our own.

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

It seems we have dodged another bullet in our cost of energy as oil prices have plummeted and gas is preparing to drop below $2.00 a gallon, down from inching just over $4.00 a gallon earlier this summer during the campaign.

Such high costs put a crimp in our living standards and hurt everybody as we stopped driving as much, stopped buying new cars and had to pay increased prices for nearly everything that had to be shipped over the road by truck. We cried out about it and the candidates responded with promises of increased energy efficiency requirements to partially lifting the decades long ban on drilling our own oil supplies.

At one time both major presidential candidates opposed lifting the ban on offshore drilling of our own oil, but the high prices Americans paid at the pumps and the outrage expressed over it has encouraged both to revise their opposition at least partly.

After allowing the drilling ban to expire, Democrats initially let it be known that they might re-impose drilling bans offshore with the new presidents administration.

“We believe the position outlined to news reporters by House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer - that the Democratic leadership would not seek to re-impose the ban on oil and natural gas leasing in federal waters - is the right approach. The American public has made clear its strong support for increased access to untapped domestic oil and natural gas resources. At least two-thirds of Americans in recent exit polling said they supported offshore drilling. Neither Congress nor the next administration should set unreasonable, arbitrary limits on leasing because such restrictions could remove some of the nation’s most promising oil and natural gas prospects for development, and the industry has proven it can develop these resources in an environmentally safe manner. The industry stands ready to help put America’s vast energy resources to good use to strengthen our nation's economy and energy security, generate billions of dollars for the benefit of our federal and state treasuries and provide good jobs for Americans across the country.”

While API stands ready to help America in our quest for energy independence, I am troubled by Hoyer’s call for “serious discussion as to the ‘parameters’ to which offshore drilling will be pursued.”

Cathy Landry, a spokeswoman for API shares my concern as she said,

“When they’re talking about ‘parameters,’ we should point out that putting arbitrary limits on development, whether that’s [prohibiting drilling within] 100 miles from shore, or whatever they’re thinking, could take some of the most promising domestic resources off the table,” adding, “So we would caution them to really look at what they’re doing and learn about what’s out there before they take action. It could potentially keep some of our nation’s best prospects from being developed.”

Younger Americans may not remember, but this isn’t the first time our dependence of foreign oil has drained our personal budgets. We saw this before in 1973 and 1979 with an increase in oil prices from foreign sources in 1990, while we let our own oil resources sit idle in the ground offshore and within the country itself.

Opposition to drilling our own ranges from environmentalists who’d prefer we go back to walking and riding bicycles to politicians who cry oil companies hold leases to lands to drill already, disregarding that the oil reserves aren’t located on those lands.

Drilling and refining our own oil not only decreases our dependence on foreign lands oil, that are often hostile to us, it stands to create more jobs which results in increased tax revenues for the treasury. In a letter to Congress, Jack Gerard, President and CEO of the American Petroleum Institute said in part,

“The U.S. oil and natural gas industry supports approximately 6 million jobs – 1.8 million people directly employed by the industry, with more than 4 million indirect jobs. Expanded access creates more job opportunities – and many of these jobs pay more than double the national average. In addition, oil and natural gas development on federal lands, both onshore and offshore, means billions of dollars for the U.S. Treasury and state governments in the form of royalties, bonus bids, rentals, severance taxes, corporate income taxes and property taxes.”

Sharing in my own sentiments, Mr. Gerard adds,

“Now that the campaigns are over, the time is right for a fresh start on energy. The American people have shown overwhelming support for increased domestic oil and natural gas development. Election Day exit polls found two-thirds of voters favor offshore drilling where it is not currently allowed.”

We have survived another wake up call, America. As oil prices slide back down, we cannot let ourselves be lulled back to sleep and continue our dependence on foreign countries for our energy needs. We have several energy resources right here within our own borders to utilize. We have several alternative energy resources in the works, but they have yet to be perfected. Petroleum remains our best bet for the right now. It’s the most economical in energy returned. And, it is available, if we will demand our politicians get out of the way and stay out of the way of obtaining it.

It’s about time we citizens of America woke up and see that our energy costs are tied to nearly every part of our society. From what it cost to drive our cars to what we pay for groceries, to the comfort of our homes, we have serious energy needs. We have the resources available within our own country to met these needs and meet them in environmentally safe ways.

We must declare energy independence and stand on our own. We can no longer afford to be held hostage by foreign lands that aren’t afraid to use their energy sources as weapons against us.

We will perfect alternative energy sources, but in the mean time, we must use what we have available today. We must let our politicians know we want energy independence and they must support obtaining our own resources, offshore as well as onshore.

We must let them know we will not support imposing restrictive taxes on the industry that is working towards our energy independence nor will we accept higher energy taxes on our own individual energy consumption.

We have been promised “change” and we must demand that change include reasonable energy costs and energy independence.

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Somali Pirates have seized yet another ship, an Iranian Cargo ship carrying 30 tons of grain and a Saudi Arabian Super Tanker with a cargo of $100 million worth of crude oil.

Astonishing is that the World’s Leaders and Navies declare themselves “powerless” against this band of criminal thugs, holding world trade hostage.

Saudi Arabia’s Prince Saud al-Faisal says, “Piracy, like terrorism, is a disease which is against everybody, and everybody must address it together.”

In true liberal wimpish fashion, Roger Middleton, a Horn of Africa specialist at the Chatham House think-tank says, “Now that they have shown they are able to seize an enormous ship like this, it is beyond a military solution. You won’t fix this without a political solution.”

The world has seen “political solutions” before and the result was more bloody war.

In spite of a UN Mandate allowing several nations Navies to patrol the area, ships continue to be illegally seized, as the Naval Operations must deal with “legal difficulties,” such as restrictive rules of engagement and rights of habeas corpus.

Forgotten is the world’s right to free trade between nations, unhampered by piracy while Pirates exploit the confusion as we worry about legalities.

Fully understanding that Somalia is besieged with unrest and no legitimate government currently is no excuse for not dealing with Pirates that intercept whatever they please and the mightiest Militaries on the planet sit back and worry about rights for the Pirates.

The UN Security Council unanimously passed resolution 1838 which “precisely and clearly calls on the member States of the United Nations to fight by any means under Chapter 7, the pirates.”

Some 7 ships are currently patrolling the waters off Somalia to combat pirates while NATO says “its priority is escorting World Food Program ships that deliver basic rations for three million hungry Somalis.”

I am left with the feeling that once again, in spite of all the condemnations of America thinking we are the World’s Police Force, these nations are sitting back, doing minimal patrolling and waiting for us to deal with the problem, while they continue to look down their noses at America.

We saw this with the War on Terror, joined in by the bleeding heart leftists within America for retaliating against terror. Terrorist rights seemed to be foremost in the minds of many who want to close down Guantanamo and bring terrorists inside of America for Civilian Trials, with no regard of what afterwards, should they be acquitted.

The world condemns George W. Bush for taking swift action against terrorists and resuming hostilities against the Saddam Hussein regime in Iraq before he could support the terrorists even more. Few nations joined in the fight in earnest and a few more gave only tacit support, with too many sitting back complaining, but letting American blood be shed to fight terrorists.

Pirates, just like terrorists, have gotten emboldened by the lack of action against them. They have honed their tactics and gotten brazen in openly seizing cargoes destined for world markets.

President Bush has just weeks left in office before he turns leadership over to a inexperienced novice with no idea of what it is like to deal with whiney world leaders who don’t want their hands soiled protecting their countries.

Will he meet with these Pirates and negotiate an end, only to discover that doing so emboldens them more? Will he tell the world’s leaders it’s their baby and demand they deal with the problem, since it is mostly their ships and cargoes being highjacked?

Do they all forget they claim our Army is stretched to the breaking point and exhausted from fighting terrorists?

If ordered, our Brave Warriors will go and engage this band of criminals and yes, I fell win, provided they a re allowed to fight. But, if B HO orders them to fight, will he be accused like President Bush was of engaging in an “illegal pre-emptive war” against someone who never attacked us?

This very possibly could be the test Joe Biden was talking about, or at least one of them.

I have no idea how B HO will perform in this regard as I have not heard him speak about this problem. I also have no reason to be confident he will act in the best interest of America and take a strong stance and tell the UN and world leaders to deal with this small band of Pirates themselves, we are busy elsewhere.

It is well past time the rest of the world stepped up to the plate and dealt with despots too. Since they complain we should not be the World’s Police Force, it becomes incumbent upon them to deal with those who threaten their nations.

Stop bashing America, get off your asses and fight for your freedom and liberty against these pirates that hold your nations hostage. Stop waiting on us to clean up your messes just so you can complain that we saved your sorry butts.

A Norwegian Shipping company has ordered their ships to sail around Africa instead of through the Suez Canal, bypassing the area the Pirates operate in and raising their shipping costs considerbaly, I'm sure.

More an indictment of the Nationalist Media, wholly in the tank for Obama, interviews with 12 Obama supporters right after they voted and what they knew about the candidates and where they receive their news.

Saturday, November 15, 2008

As a Viet Nam Veteran who was away from America during the active time of the Weatherman Underground movement, first for 18 months in Viet Nam followed by 3 years in Germany with the U.S. Army, I missed out on a lot of the news of the activities of this radical leftist group. What little word leaked to us wasn’t paid much attention to, as we were busy with more important matters at the time.

By the time of my return to the United States in March 1974, much of their goals accomplished, ending American involvement in keeping innocent South Vietnamese free, there was scant mention of them in the news.

So it was with particular interest that I paid attention when the name of Bill Ayers popped up during the Obama coup d'état of the presidency. Naturally, the leftstream media, in the tank for Homey, poo pooed any involvement between the two and castigated any who tried to confirm the connection. Even Whoopi Goldberg once said she thought Ayers had “rehabilitated himself,” that sentiment shared and echoed by B HO during campaign stumps.

I have to give B HO credit for quick thinking when he distanced himself from Ayers with,

“This is a guy who lives in my neighborhood … the notion that somehow as a consequence of me knowing somebody who engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago — when I was 8 years old — somehow reflects on me and my values doesn’t make much sense.”

Ending his month’s long silence, Ayers now comes out with a similar sentiment saying that the GOP attack was a

“dishonest narrative ... to demonize me,” adding, “I don’t buy the idea that guilt by association should have any part of our politics. This idea that we need to know more, like there’s some dark, hidden secret, some secret link, it’s a myth thrown up by people who want to exploit the politics of fear.”

I wonder if the name Jack Abramoff rings a bell with Ayers? Of course, since that was a different attempt to steal the presidency, I’m sure such a “luminary” and “distinguished” Domestic Terrorist as Ayers would not need to know of such efforts since no corroborative link between Abramoff and President Bush was established, in spite of strong efforts.

In what I can only assume is an effort to appear “softened” and somewhat “rehabilitated” of his radical bombing domestic terrorist activities that cost the lives of three Weathermen, including Ayers then girl friend, Diana Oughton, he now makes the claim that quotes of him saying, “I don’t regret setting bombs. I wish we’d set more bombs. I don’t think we did enough,” from 2001 around the time of the release of his autobiography, ‘Fugitive Days,’ are

“neither my narrative nor my sentiment, but the idea was seized upon by the neocon media machine: I was an unrepentent and violent terrorist.” He added, “I never actually said that I ‘set bombs,’ nor that I wished there were ‘more bombs.’ ... I killed no one, and I harmed no one.”

Did he forget that the bomb that killed his girlfriend in 1970 was a “nail bomb?” Nail bombs are strictly “anti-personnel” bombs, designed only to kill, maim and disfigure humans.

Do you wonder if he ever considers the harm he does to 2.5 million American Citizens who served in the defense of South Viet Nam, including just over 58,000 Brave Souls who paid the ultimate sacrifice, and their families and loved ones when he states,

“I didn’t regret for a minute resisting the murderous assault on Viet Nam with every ounce of my being?”

Or, when he says, “History has shown of the Vietnam War that those who opposed it were on the right side?” I imagine a few million Vietnamese people would disagree with that assessment. Hundreds of thousands more might, if they still were alive today.

“The war in Vietnam was an illegal invasion and occupation, much of it conducted as a war of terror against the civilian population. The U.S. military killed millions of Vietnamese in air raids—like the one conducted by McCain—and entire areas of the country were designated free-fire zones, where American pilots indiscriminately dropped surplus ordinance—an immoral enterprise by any measure.”

Lies as this has perpetuated the myth of the deranged Viet Nam Veteran for decades now and he claims he “caused no one harm?”

Of that “neocon media machine” he slurs, his claims were made on September 11, 2001 in the New York Times and the August 2001 edition of Chicago Magazine, to mention just two. Neither are what I would classify as either “neocon” or “rightwinged.”

All during the campaign, mentions of Ayers association with B HO would elicit the response shown above that Barry was only 8 years old when Ayers was committing those detestable acts that Ayers now says he really didn’t commit. I recall no one trying to make the claim that B HO was involved in the Weatherman’s activities long ago, just that he was associating with a known and unrepentant domestic terrorist that made the claim, “Guilty as hell, free as a bird—America is a great country.” Yet, Ayers appreciation of this “great country” is to try to bring about its downfall through Socialist programs that have failed in every Communist Nation they were tried in.

Then again, how does Ayers now claim he really didn’t do anything wrong, but make the claim of his guilt and freedom from prosecution? John Murtagh might just feel a bit different about Ayers not really having done anything wrong, as he recalls the night he woke up at 9 years old to firebombs going off around his home, placed by the Weathermen that Ayers led.

Both Barry and Ayers claim they really had no association, to successfully counter claims made about their association. Ayers claimed the only knew each other “professionally,” yet in the same interview, says that B HO was a “Family Friend.”

In the ABC interview, after identifying Ayers as a “distinguished professor of education at the University of Illinois at Chicago,” reminds us that in a new afterward to “Fugitive Days,” Ayers describes Obama as a “neighbor and family friend.”

Is this why Ayers remained quiet all during the campaign, breaking his silence only after B HO’s coup d'état was complete? To protect him from their association?

Then again, how “rehabilitated” is Ayers that he has maintained several radical ideals and ties to Marxists throughout his professorship? What is the possibility, given that B HO expressed several Marxist ideas throughout the campaign, that they share the idea of Subversion of American Youth, Ayers through education and Barry through his Youth Corps.

Newly appointed White House Chief of Staff for the incoming B HO administration, Rahm Emanuel explains some of the Youth Corps here.

There is no claim and if I recall correctly, Barry says Ayers will not be advising him. But then again, Barry said he was bringing “Change” to Washington D.C. and yet, with his appointments so far, he appears to be building a return to the troubled Clinton Administration. Will the “distinguished” unrepentant domestic terrorist find a way into B HO’s ear anyways? Only time will tell.

Might this subterfuge during the campaign be to further the goal of turning our education system into a radical leftist indoctrination system, as was outlined and read into the 1963 Congressional Record by Florida Democrat Congressman, A.S. Herlong?

Interesting yet scary times we live in when a radical like Bill Ayers is regarded as a “distinguished” anything, instead of serving time in prison, where he belongs.

How absolutely hypocritical that Ayers, who expresses and has shown such hatred towards a Capitalist America, is still hawking a book for his own profit.

Could it be that like most other Socialists, curtailing of profit is only for you and not them?

Apparently Bob Dylan was wrong all those years ago. Even with a weatherman, many still don’t see which way the wind blows.

Thursday, November 13, 2008

It was just this past March that RIALW exposed the hoax of a “pregnant man”, revealing that in actuality, this so-called “man” is a lesbian activist living as a man and went to court to have herself declared “male” by judicial decree.

In July we reported that the lesbian couple had given birth to a healthy baby girl, reminding all that the notion of a “man” carrying and delivering a baby, even by ‘C’-Section was not worthy of all the International attention paid to a rather ordinary birth.

Not too unexpectedly, our own media, dumbed down as they are, perpetuated the myth of a pregnant man by bringing on this confused woman, who underwent radical mastectomy and took testosterone, but retained full female genitalia and reproductive organs, to broadcast to the world and our nation that at long last, a man was pregnant with a child.

Thomas Beatie, aka Tracy LaGondino was the hit of the left-winged talk show circuit, making a big splash on the Oprah Winfrey Show, among others, who told us this confused woman’s pregnancy is “a new definition of what diversity means for everybody.”

Now, we have ABC’s Barbara Walters, throwing away what smidgen of credibility she might still have retained by informing the world, Pregnant “Man” Expecting Second Child, in a new interview continuing the myth and blurring the lines between the sexes.

Most ridiculous is that throughout the interview Thomas/Tracie is continually referred to as “he” and “his,” and includes a video beginning with her strategically standing before a mirror, shirtless, flexing her muscles, as if that makes one more masculine.

Included with the article are several photos presumably taken at the lesbian couples home, most with Thomas/Tracie shirtless, as if to drive home to readers that her breasts have been surgically removed.

Walters interview reveals that the birth, first reported to be by Caesarian Section actually wasn’t, a feat physically impossible for any male.

Thomas/Tracie also says of her original story, “I was shocked that it looped around the world in 24 hours,” after Walters tells us she wrote about it in a popular Gay Magazine.

Thomas/Tracie claims to have been living a “quiet life in Bend, Oregon,” but “keeps the blinds drawn and monitors surveillance cameras that surround the property,” due to “death threats” she claims she and her partner receive.

Any pretense of “quietness” is thrown out he window with their desire to stir it up again with yet another public television interview.

Maybe to those on the left this is seen as an “enlightening occurrence,” but Thomas/Tracie reveals her confusion when she was asked why she makes people uneasy and she answered, “I think that people are not used to seeing the image of a pregnant man. And it's causing a lot of people to think,” adding the most confused statement she has ever uttered, “I used my female reproductive organs to become a father.”

Think, if you will, ahead a few years when these children are in school around other children who are born from a man and a woman in a more normal family setting and who know that Daddy is different than Mommie and that Mommies have the babies and Daddy’s place the babies in Mommy. Children can be the coldest and most heartless of all, any parent can tell you that. So, what do you think will happen when one of the couple’s children states that they were born from Daddy?

What sort of confusion will result when the teacher is forced to tell the students that Daddy’s can have babies, when they can’t, and the children go home to tell their parents and it all has to be explained.

I imagine that trying to explain what a ‘blow-job’ was, after Bill Clinton’s affair to Monica Lewinsky was revealed, to a six-year-old will have been easier than trying to explain this one to small children.

The thought of that flies in the face of Thomas/Tracie’s claim of, “We are a man, woman and child. It's ironic that we are so different but yet, we're just a family, just the same as anyone else.”

Not hardly.

In today’s world, even though the majority opposes same-sex marriage, Gay relationships are accepted and most people don’t give them much attention. Lesbian couples have children all the time, becoming impregnated by artificial insemination and giving a normal female birth.

Given Thomas/Tracies history of activism for the Gay lifestyle, I have to suspect that her efforts here are not as pure as she once claimed they were when she said, “Wanting to have a biological child is neither a male nor female desire, but a human desire.”

Such a rapid second pregnancy, after the hoopla died down and making sure she appears on National TV again, takes this beyond just a “human desire to have a biological child.”

I see this more attempts at shoving the Gay Agenda down the throats of heterosexual society as well as blurring the lines between genders even further than they have been.

If Thomas/Tracie isn’t a very confused individual, then she is a very deceitful individual. I don’t care if you believe in Creation, Evolution or Intelligent Design; Male and Female are here for a reason. While in some lower life forms the male might be the child bearer, in the Human species that doesn’t happen naturally.

So long as “HE” retains female genitalia and reproductive organs, it's “SHE.”

Judicial decrees do not over rule the laws of nature. Claiming otherwise and agreeing with it is not only naïve it is down right deceitful.

Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Barack Obama, winner of the recent election, took advantage of Veteran’s Day to lay a wreath at the Bronze Soldiers Memorial in Chicago, accompanied by dual amputee Iraq Veteran and felow Democrat, Tammy Duckworth.

Accompanying photographers were offered and took advantage of the duo walking togther and hugging.

“As we mark Veterans Day, all Americans are united in honoring the extraordinary service and selfless sacrifice of our nation’s veterans. Our veterans are part of an unbroken line of heroes who have defended the American people and stood up for American values - from the beaches of Normandy to the battles in East Asia; from the deserts of Kuwait to the skies above Kosovo; from the cities of Iraq to the mountains of Afghanistan. Since 9/11, a new generation of American heroes has borne a heavy load in facing down the threats of the 21st century, and their families have been asked to bear the painful absence of a loved one. These Americans are the best and bravest among us, and they are all in our thoughts and prayers.”

“On this Veterans Day, let us rededicate ourselves to keep a sacred trust with all who have worn the uniform of the United States of America: that America will serve you as well as you have served your country. As your next Commander-in-Chief, I promise to work every single day to keep that sacred trust with all who have served. May God bless our veterans, and may God bless the United States of America.”

Lofty and flowery words, for sure, stated by past presidents many times. As a Veteran, we appreciate hearing that our sacrifices were not in vain, they have validated our service and time spent in wars, past and present.

When spoken with true conviction and humility by an honorable president, they hold special meaning to us. Despite the ill-treatment we Viet Nam Veterans received decades ago, similar words spoken by Presidents Reagan, Bush 1 and George W. Bush left us feeling appreciated, finally.

But, what of B HO’s words today? He speaks of a “sacred trust” with all of us. Can we discern what that means? Does he even know what it means?

“Confidence; a reliance or resting of the mind on the integrity, veracity, justice, friendship or other sound principle of another person,” warning, “Never violate a sacred trust!”

Was it carrying out this “sacred trust” that B HO wouldn’t even visit with our wounded in Landstuhl Germany, when vying for the Dems nomination, when told he couldn’t take photographers in with him?

Is it fulfilling a ‘sacred trust’ to force another withdrawal before the job is done, invalidating the sacrifice’s of all who served and especially, those who fell? Would waving the white flag of surrender to our enemies as our Brave Volunteers are winning violate that ‘sacred trust?’

What sacred trust is there when members of B HO’s own party have repeatedly rejected ballots cast by our Troops over any technicality they may find? Is that how he sees, “America will serve you as well as you have served your country?”

Is it a ‘sacred trust’ that when our Brave Troops return home, while some accolades are placed upon them, they ultimately are regarded more as victims, instead of the Warriors and Heroes they really are?

This Veteran sees looking down upon us as ‘damaged goods,’ mentally deficient due to wartime experiences and someone to be ‘pitied’ instead of honored as a violation of the ‘sacred trust’ B HO speaks about.

Was it upholding the ‘sacred trust’ when Democrats Exploited Wounded Troops in an attempt to embarrass and undermine the current Commander In Chief?

Also today, President Bush stood before Veterans once again, as he has done many times, and for the last time as their Commander In Chief. He felt no need to make empty promises, instead letting all know that ‘they’ had inspired him. Earning salutes from the Veterans as they stood, Bush said,

“Thank you for your courage, thank you for your sacrifice, and thank you for standing up when your nation needed you most.”

In a separate ceremony at Arlington Cemetery, Vice President Cheney told all in attendance,

“No single military power in history has done greater good, shown greater courage, liberated more people, or upheld higher standards of decency and valor than the armed forces of the United States of America. That is a legacy to be proud of and those who contributed to it must never be taken for granted."

In spite of 8 years of the Socialist Demokratik Politburo’s efforts at demeaning, destroying, undermining and demonizing President Bush and his administration, B HO is left with some very tall boots to fill, especially when it comes to the majority of our Brave Veterans.

He won’t have the luxury of reading from a teleprompter when meeting with and facing tough and difficult negotiations with adversarial world leaders. Abandoning yet another struggling ally will only place him in a weaker position.

Sunday, November 09, 2008

Sure to please the America hating left that elected a Marxist as our new president, a Senior Russian Political Analyst now says “Obama's victory in the presidential election marks an end to the superpower era for the United States.”

Sergei Rogov, director of the U.S. and Canada Institute says,

“The U.S. presidential election has great significance. I would qualify its results as the end of an era ...of several decades when the U.S. became a superpower and attempted to emerge as the only superpower in a unipolar world after the end of the Cold War.”

Does Rogov recognize that sole Superpower status was thrust upon us when the Soviet Union, unable to compete in the market or defense spending, folded, bankrupt? Does he acknowledge that the U.S. has shown remarkable restraint as the sole Superpower, even after being attacked numerous times by radical Jihadists seeking to be the World’s Rulers?

No!

He just takes delight that seeing who Americans elected to the top office in the land will now dismantle America as a Superpower.

Rogov makes the further false assumption of,

“The self-imposed role as the world's policeman has exhausted the American army, which is now unable to wage a third war against Iran or North Korea.”

Does Rogov see a need for another war? If so, why aren’t those who see the need banding together against these other despots instead of seeking to dismantle he only nation willing to confront the radical Jihadists that have even attacked his nation, Russia?

Would America have an easier time fighting terrorists had Russia joined in the effort, along with other European nations that have also been attacked by radical extremists?

I think so, but showing the long hatred of America’s freedoms, Rogov can only celebrate that thanks to Obamessiah, American Superpower era will end.

What’s left, to decide who will divvy up our country under the new Marxist rule?

In a similar regard, former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, the Red darling of the Marxist left and Democrats in America, chimes in calling for Homey to bring about “far-reaching 'perestroika' reforms to overcome the financial crisis and restore balance in the world.”

Does he not realize that Rogov said our Superpower days have ended? If what Rogov says is true, why lay it off on America to “restore balance in the world?”

Since Marxist Democrats see Socialism as the answer to the world’s problems, why does Gorbachev expect a Democratic Republic, a Capitalist Country, to “restore balance in the world?” Why aren’t all those Socialist Utopia’s of the world, Venezuela, North Korea, Cuba, Iran, China and yes, Russia not just fixing all the troubles of the world?

Could it be that Socialist leaders see their system is what is really failing, but refuse to give up their power and know that as America comes to the rescue once again, while converting to the Socialism that has failed their own countries, America will be bled dry and the world will be left with no one to oppose the Socialist elite, other than the radical Jihadists they falsely believe will quiet down once America fails?

To a Soviet, that is probably music to their ears as both Reagan and Thatcher stood tall and opposed freedom restricting Marxism.

Further embracing Homey, Russian Muslims have said they “hope that U.S. President-elect Barack Obama will be able to improve relations between Washington and Moscow.”

Perhaps that means to abandon the anti-Iran missile shield that President Bush and Polish President Lech Kaczynski have been negotiating and Russia’s Vladimir Putin vehemently opposes, even though he has been offered to inspect the missiles to confirm they are not aimed at Russia.

Could Putin have some plans for Poland he isn’t speaking of?

Russian Muslims add that they have a “positive opinion of the newly elected U.S. president and are happy with his election,” adding, “probably because the new U.S. president has Islamic roots.”

So, America, you have elected someone who Russians see will end American Superpower days and who has pledged to “increase taxes for the rich and corporations, listen more to the country's traditional European allies, and stick to diplomatic options in dealing with Iran and other 'rogue' states.”

Additionally, he has vowed to “end” the Iraq war (not win it), increase the number of troops in Afghanistan and step up peace efforts in the Middle East.

Lofty aims, but if seems I recall we went down this road some 70 years ago and all it accomplished was the bloodiest war the world had ever seen.

As Homey’s inexperience and lack of abilities come to the front, after all, he won’t be able to read off of a teleprompter when meeting with other leaders who seek only the destruction of America, preferably by peaceful means, and your paycheck sinks to where it us sanding in a 3-block long line to buy a loaf of bread, just remember, you voted for him, I didn’t.

When the next terrorist attack comes, don’t look to us, seek one of your longhaired pot smoking hippie type war protestor or Code Pinko for protection.

When the automotive manufacturers close their doors because no one is buying cars or gas and maintenance for them, after the left’s demonization of cars and the oil companies and unemployment reaches double digits again and the tax coffers have long dried up due to excessive entitlements being paid out to illegal aliens and others that could have worked but chose the easy way, march in the streets again and celebrate, you elected him.

Saturday, November 08, 2008

As can be expected, Liberal Socialist and other commies are ecstatic and selling America down the drain. So ecstatic they have over reached in theri gloating and further dividing America while telling us they are reaching out for us to join them.

Fat chance, moonbats. One even referred to us as "terrorists" in email to me.

With Obamessiah ready to capitualte to the real terrorists, we'll see how the liberal slime deal with dead bodies around them.

Be warned, the video is laced with vulgarities and pure hate for those of us who really love America and don't want to see it just another third world country.

Thursday, November 06, 2008

It’s all over now; just a formality awaits the meeting of the Electoral College to officially elect Homey as President.

If any one deserves accolades from B HO’s camp it has to be our lamestream media that deliberately failed to do their job and inform voters about the candidates, all of the candidates, not just Sarah Palin’s 6-year-old daughter.

We learned more about Sarah Palin’s choice of eyeliner over the first weekend she was selected than we still know about B HO, aka, Homey the Prez.

No one was the least bit interested in Bill Ayers, Jeremiah Wright, Tony Rezko, Nadhami Auchi, Rashid Khalid and more. They were only interested in digging up any and all the dirt they could on Sarah Palin’s family and Joe the Plumber, the guy who put B HO on the spot with the question on “redistributing the wealth.”

If any one can take credit for the selection of a weak candidate like McCain and elevating Homey to messiah status, it is they who decided they could manipulate public opinion, and successfully did so. That we Americans will get the shaft as B HO institutes his Socialist agenda, with the willing help of the Socialist Demokratik Politburo, does not matter.

We are just the Proletariat, the working class slaves of the elites who will live fat off of our labor while telling us they are restricting our liberties, for the common good. 'Common good' meaning to protect their power.

Limp wrested Chris Matthews has now come out saying, “I want to do everything I can to help make this presidency work.” He also says we need a “successful presidency,” after going out of his way, along with his accomplices in the National Socialist media to interfere and undermine the sitting president over the last 8 years.

The country gets screwed again, but I’m sure Chrissy has that “thrill up his leg” now.

Joining him in his effort to “transform America,” we have nearly every so called Journalist in the employ of the National Socialist Media, America’s own Pravda and Al Jazeera, touting themselves as news reporters. Propaganda ministers is more like it.

Three days before the election, we had Tom Brokaw interviewed by Charlie Rose, both admitting they know nothing about Homey, NOTHING!!!

They said,

ROSE: I don't know what Barack Obama's worldview is.

BROKAW: No, I don't either.

ROSE: I don't know how he really sees where China is.

BROKAW: We don't know a lot about Barack Obama and the universe of his thinking about foreign policy.

ROSE: I don't really know. And do we know anything about the people who are advising him?

BROKAW: You know that's an interesting question.

ROSE: He is principally known through his autobiography and through very aspirational (sic) speeches, two of them.

BROKAW: I don't know what books he's read.

ROSE: What do we know about the heroes of Barack Obama?

BROKAW: There's a lot about him we don't know.

They had 18 months to find out about Homey. Yet, in 2 days, they dug up and manufactured enough irrelevant dirt on Sarah Palin to fill scores of broadcast time and print.

We also have the AP’s White House Correspondent and Bush hater, Jennifer Loven saying,

“Even after nearly two years in the spotlight, little is understood about the 47-year-old first-term senator’s approach to leadership. His resume: community organizer, eight years as state legislator, and less than four as U.S. senator.”

She adds,

“[H]e has devoted most of his time in the Senate to running for president. ...Personally, he's a bit of an enigma…”

Then we have CNN’s Brian Todd interviewing an unknown who openly admits he voted twice and what does the “reporter” say?

“I think that’s against the law, but that’s okay.”

Will CNN look into other claims of voter fraud or disenfranchisement? Don’t hold your breath. Homey won and they are ecstatic over it. Voter fraud against Republicans holds no interest to our National Socialist Pravda, only when they can claim it is against their cronies in the Socialist Demokratik Politburo.

As we await the coronation of B HO, I am sure our Pravda journalists will call on all of America to get behind Homey the President, exactly opposite of how they treated George W. Bush.

This conservative will give him the same support and respect the Demokrats gave to Bush and Republicans over the last 8 years. They set the tone and I, for one, will carry it forth, just as they do today.

Our once great media has joined the moonbat brigade in seeking the destruction of our great nation. Thomas Jefferson in 1807 saw abuses of the press and aptly described then what our media has done today,

“Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle. The real extent of this state of misinformation is known only to those who are in situations to confront facts within their knowledge with the lies of the day.”

We cannot trust them any more today than did Thomas Jefferson in 1807.

Wednesday, November 05, 2008

It was back in 1969 that I left the United States to go fight a war against Communism across the Pacific. 18 months later I traveled to Germany for 3 years, returning to America with my wife and baby.

We landed in Charleston, South Carolina in March 1974 and within mere minutes I could see that the America I left had disappeared. The courtesies and mutual respects I had grown up with seemed to be missing. The attitudes of the people had changed from proud of America to shame because we were fighting Communism, not embracing it.

Throughout the succeeding years, the struggle to maintain our liberties were slowly stripped away, right before our very eyes. Warnings to people went ignored as they accepted whatever the socialist elite told them was “good for the common good.”

Conservative values and principles were thrown away as people embraced a ‘culture of death’ by wantonly slaughtering unborn children because they were now considered an “inconvenience.”

Veterans, once honored and revered in our society, were suddenly pariahs, considered “damaged goods” worthy of only pity. Valor was no longer honored as cries of “ticking time bombs” were hung around our necks, children taught to fear those who placed themselves between Americans and enemies.

Politicians no longer do for America, but for their party as the cut throat began, each trying more and more to demonize the other, the Democrats winning top honors in this sleaze department.

Hippies, draft dodgers and anti-war cowards were embraced as heroes as they entered politics, pushing more and more Socialist programs off on people who lost sight of achieving and instead, settled for government hand outs and usurpations of our liberties.

Personal merit seemed to no longer matter as “seniority” and “affirmative action” determined who was given a chance to advance or remain.

Prices and taxes skyrocketed as goods fell behind in quality and quantity, many of our necessity items now having to be imported from former enemies.

Gone were the days of “getting behind a president,” even if from the opposing party, replaced by endless investigations, calls for impeachments and cover-ups of scandalous activity.

Republicans decided to act loftier by ousting those accused and who could no longer be covered up, while Democrats circled the wagons and excused whatever scandal theirs were accused of, even to the seduction of a young lady within the Oval Office.

We somehow decided the world must “like us” and allowed attack after attack upon our interests, not wanting to retaliate, erroneously thinking doing so would just further incite enemies. When over 3,000 of our citizens were murdered before our very eyes, some played at outrage while others began blaming the newly installed president of actually doing it himself and planting evidence to make it look like radical Jihadists committed the terror attack instead.

This president became the most hated man in the country as he tried to move the country back towards the values I once knew. For his efforts, he has been demonized and denigrated at every turn, reaching out to work with others backfiring.

Somehow, during the time leading up to the new century we are in, it became wrong to defend yourself or your property against interlopers, common criminals now considered “victims” of an oppressed minority instead of just low-life criminals. Real victims of crime were all too often prosecuted as criminals as the criminals that violated them were rewarded.

Mentions of God or Jesus were banned throughout the land, as “Separation of Church and State” became official policy, even though it isn’t in our constitution, but instead appears in the constitution of the former Soviet Union.

Somehow, the religion that the radical Jihadists perverted and came out of gradually became accepted in our government and public arena’s as accommodations have been made to elevate that religion over others in America, not wanting to “offend” that single group.

Now, American’s have fallen for an inexperienced and questionable man as our new President solely because it is considered “racist” due to color of his skin. Those who backed and supported this newly elected President haven’t a clue who he is, what he stands for or what he plans to do, seeing only a “cleansing of past wrongs” by ensuring a complete novice is elected, just to show the world, the same world that has looked down their nose at us since our country was founded, that we are not racists.

That these other nations have never selected a person of African heritage to their leadership positions doesn’t matter. That the slavery we all now abhor was imported from their countries is of no concern. Only America must show our elimination of racism by installing the first Affirmative Action president in history, regardless of lack of experience or leadership skills.

Even more offensive to my sensibilities is the cry of “divisiveness” trumpeted throughout the land whenever Democrats do not control power. Extensions of hands of cooperation and “bi-partisanship” are rejected, as they demand their minority status means they should be given more consideration in their views.

Once they become the majority rule, however, minority status means you must sit back and shut-up, as we are a “majority rule” nation. The double-standard is glaring and ignored by citizens who blindly accept how only the Socialist Democrats care by giving out more and more hand-outs, supposedly confiscated from those who have succeeded the most.

America, you have now culminated the slide away from American values. You are now under one party rule, ruled by the Socialist Democrat Party who has lied their way into power convincing you that others are to blame for what they cause. Who lied to you about only confiscating the riches of the top wage earners to give you something you haven’t worked for, convincing you that you are entitled to their rewards for their work.

That this has failed everywhere it was tried throughout history no longer matters, you fell for it. That it only means you will only have less does not enter your minds as your sheeple attitude has taken over and working for what you receive no longer matters to many.

Americans have forgotten you get the government you asked for. The sense of entitlement that continually fails has become the norm of America as former enemies rejected it and embraced what we used to live by as they bypass us economically and ship their goods to us until our National Wealth disappears into their treasuries, ours depleted by hand-outs and while little is able to returned.

You have chosen “trickle up poverty” and Socialism over common sense and working for what you earn.

Most appalling is that only when the Socialist Democrats rule do they consider Americans have “come together” as one, rejecting any cooperative overtures when they weren’t the ruling Politburo.

Sunday, November 02, 2008

It has been 2,844 days since President George W. Bush took office, to the scorn and ridicule of all too many Americans. He only has about 72 days left to serve America, much to the happiness of the socialist left of America, who has spewed their hatred of the man for these last 2,844 days.

Even during those tragic days immediately following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, their hate continued as they began seeking ways to blame such a horrendous act upon him instead of the bloodthirsty extremists that caused it.

Calls for his impeachment began almost before he even took office, as false charges of ‘voter fraud’ echoed across the land due to the Republicans winning the court challenges initiated by the Democrats in the 2000 Florida recounts. That independent recounts all showed that he in fact did win that election legitimately was ignored as creative methods of recounting were splashed to show that Al Gore actually won, if all the unlawful and improper votes were included.

From a major hurricane hit to the War on Terror, Bush has been besieged by ridicule and scorn, just for doing his job. Democrats lined up to beat him over the head, joined by all too many Republicans, as Bush held his head high and pushed forward.

For the first time in our history, former President's spoke openly against President Bush, fanning more flames of discontent and trying to destroy the man, to no avail.

Democrat policies that finally caused our economy to tank were ignored as all blame was placed firmly on Bush, even though it is the Legislative branch that actually passes budgets and laws, not the President.

From ‘Shrub’ and being compared to monkeys, to being labeled a bloodthirsty warmonger, the man has endured nothing but ridicule and undermining of his administration, even from many from within his own party.

Labeled a draft dodger by the Democrat candidate in 2004, who actually is a scoundrel of the worst degree and traitor in this Veterans opinion, President Bush endured and retained his values and composure, leading the nation and protecting us all.

That we haven’t been hit by another major terrorist attack is ignored, as calls of he is only stirring them up again cry out. “Revelations” of more pending war are revealed often, even though he has never said a thing about more plans.

Even now, Republican candidates distance themselves from this man who has protected us all and finally faced terror and the nations troubles head on, only to receive more scorn from the left-leaning lamestream media and politico’s.

Dan Eggen, Washington Post Staff Writer tells us that Bush, “faces record-low approval ratings and a presidential campaign focused on his failings” as he labels those of us who appreciate what the President has done as “Loyalists.”

Eggen tells us that many of us believe

“Bush's reputation has been unfairly maligned for a series of calamities -- from the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks to the financial crisis -- that were beyond his control and that he handled well.”

He makes no mention of Democrats who fanned the flames of discontent as he reminds us Bush’s approval ratings are at “record lows,” even though the Democrat led Congress has even lower “record low approval ratings.”

Both party’s have made it a point to point fingers at him during this campaign season, even John McCain, who more than once undermined the Bush administration in the Senate.

Democrats promise “no more Bush,” as they continue to demonize the man and ignore their own complicity in the nations current woes. The Socialist agenda is sugar coated to make it appear palatable, when all it is just another push at reforming the failed Soviet Union inside America.

As President Bush prepares to hand over the office to whoever win’s Tuesday night, we need to look back and recall that through it all, President George W. Bush kept America’s best interest’s in his heart, not his own. Unlike predecessor’s, including his own father, he took the fight back to the terrorists, after decades of attacks against our interests.

He has sustained personal attacks on himself and his reputation that would have caused others to explode and lash back. Through it all, he maintained his dignity and stood strong, as I stated back in December as he was selected as America’s Most Admired Man.

Recently, the Iraqi Ambassador to the United Nations, T. Hamid Al-Bayati spoke before a University of South Dakota audience, expressing his thanks to America for liberating Iraq and speaking of the horrors they endured under the Saddam Hussein regime.

When one man stood up and said that President Bush had violated Iraqi sovereignty and brought five-and-a-half years of destruction and loss of life, ending with, “When will it all end,” Al-Bayati replied that,

“Saddam had violated Iraqi human rights and stole the nation’s oil. The United States and coalition forces brought freedom to the Iraqi people.”

No personal thanks to President Bush for leading the liberation of Iraq was expressed.

In a couple days we will find out if America continues its slide to Socialism and higher taxes, or if we maintain our liberties and freedoms, depending on which candidate wins the election and provided the American people accept it.

On January 20, 2009, all will meet at the White House for formal ceremonies of handing the reigns of power to whoever wins. I will not be surprised to see protesters in the crowd still chanting “Impeach Bush before it is too late.”

Much to the delight of many and sadness of others, Bush will leave, possibly still facing the scorn and ridicule of Democrats who have sworn to destroy the man or any legacy he may have.

The hatred is so severe for this man that I doubt they ever will leave him alone and will continue to blame him every time the sun doesn’t come up on time.

I will miss the strength of leadership he has shown in so many faces of adversity.

America, you did everything you could to destroy this man, but you never broke him.

As Eggen quoted in his article, recalling a time President Bush met with boyhood friends in Texas,

“I want them to know that, you know, even though I had to deal with a lot of tough issues, that I’m still the same person that they knew before and that, you know, I’m wiser, more experienced, but my heart and my values didn’t change.”

President Bush isn’t the greatest President in History, but he is far from the worst. He isn’t the most conservative either, but he stood by his values. Often, even I was at odds with him, wondering just what he was doing. But ultimately, his intent shown through and up until the Democrats seized control of Congress we fared pretty well under him.

He restored a sense of dignity and decorum to the Oval Office that was stripped away by his predecessor.

As President Bush goes off to whatever fate awaits him, I wish him Godspeed and Good Health. I hope he will be able to live out his live in relative peace and quiet on his ranch in Crawford, Texas, enjoying many years of solace and the happiness of potential grandchildren with his wife and family.

He deserves that much. If that makes me a “Loyalist,” so be it. This Viet Nam Veteran will proudly call President Bush my President.

For America, I can only say God Help Us in the days ahead as this time of Politics of Personal Destruction as we fight to retain our freedoms against slick Democrats who would sell us out to Socialism.

Thank you, President Bush, for all you did to protect America.

UPDATE 1: In what I can only view as the ultimate in Journalistic hypocrisy, the New York Times, who has spared no effort in bashing, demonizing and denigrating our President, offered an op-ed today of a medley of writers stating, What I Will Miss About President Bush.

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